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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Thurtell, John, 1794-1824 DNB: Thurtell, John (1794-1824), murderer LBT ID: JoThurt1824 VIAF ID: 30724953 LOC ID: n50011905 | B/BAP: 1794-12-21 DIED: 1824-01-09 |
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Amateur pugilist who brutally murdered the gambler William Weare; the lurid crime
attracted national attention and figured in broadsides and later fiction. | |
REFERENCES TO John Thurtell: Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [9 January 1824] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson, 25 November 1824 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Charles Cowden Clarke, 25 February 1828 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1:
¶ 14 Charles Lamb to Charles Cowden Clarke, 25 February 1828 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 15 Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 15 July 1831 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1:
¶ 4 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VII 1822-23 Found 1:
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